Tagging Text with Lexical Semantics:
Why, What, and How?

April 4-5, 1997, Washington, D.C., USA
sponsored by the ACL Special Interest Group on the Lexicon

Friday: HAND TAGGING

9:00 -- 9:10 INTRODUCTION

9:10 -- 9:50
Getting serious about word sense disambiguation (Invited talk)
Hwee Tou Ng
(Defence Science Organisation, Singapore)

9:50 -- 10:20
Experience in WordNet sense tagging in the Wall Street Journal.
J. Wiebe, J. Maples, L. Duan, and R. Bruce
(New Mexico State U., USA and S. Methodist U., USA)

10:20 -- 10:50 COFFEE BREAK

10:50 -- 11:20
Desiderata for tagging with WordNet synsets or MCCA categories.
K.C. Litkowski
(CL Research, USA)

11:20 -- 11:50
A frame-semantic approach to semantic annotation.
J.B. Lowe, C.F. Baker, and C.J. Fillmore
(U. of California, USA)

11:50 -- 12:20
A lexicon for underspecified semantic tagging.
P. Buitelaar
(Brandeis U., USA)

12:20 -- 1:20 LUNCH

1:20 -- 2:00
Analysis of a hand-tagging task (Invited talk)
Christiane Fellbaum
(Princeton U. and Rider U.)

2:00 -- 6:00 AFTERNOON WORKING SESSIONS (parallel)
(4 to 4:30 coffee break)

Writing annotation instructions
leader: Janyce Wiebe (wiebe@crl.nmsu.edu)

Combining knowledge sources for Automatic semantic tagging
leader: Boyan Onyshkevych & Doug Jones (baonysh@afterlife.ncsc.mil)

Semantic tagging and NLP applications
leaders: Thierry Declerck & Judith Klein (declerck@dfki.uni-sb.de)

Saturday: AUTOMATED METHODS

9:00 -- 9:30
Measuring semantic entropy.
I.D. Melamed
(U. of Pennsylvania, USA)

9:30 -- 10:00
Sense tagging: semantic tagging with a lexicon.
Y. Wilks and M. Stevenson
(U. of Sheffield, UK)

10:00 -- 10:30
Selectional preference and sense disambiguation.
P. Resnik (U. of Maryland, USA)

10:30 -- 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:00 -- 11:30
Investigating complementary methods for verb sense pruning.
H. Jing, V. Hatzivassiloglou, R. Passonneau, and K. McKeown
(Columbia U., USA)

11:30 -- 12:00
Towards a Bootstrapping Framework for Corpus Semantic Tagging.
R. Basili, M. Della Rocca, and M. T. Pazienza
(U. Tor Vergata Roma, Italy)

12:00 -- 12:30
Sense tagging in Action.
A. Harley and G. Glennon
(Cambridge Language Services, UK)

12:30 -- 1:30 LUNCH

1:30 -- 2:00
A perspective on word sense disambiguation methods and their evaluation.
P. Resnik and D. Yarowsky
(U. of Maryland, USA and Johns Hopkins U., USA)

2:00 -- 6:00 AFTERNOON WORKING SESSIONS (parallel)
(4 to 4:30 coffee break)

Evaluating automatic semantic taggers
leaders: Philip Resnik & David Yarowsky (resnik@umiacs.umd.edu)

Constructing semantic tagsets
leader: Alain Polguère (polguera@ERE.UMontreal.CA)

Structured lexicons and semantic tagging
leaders: Bonnie Dorr & Mari Olsen (bonnie@umiacs.umd.edu)